Had a nice almost 10-mile ride today along Padilla Bay, but my effing Giant Ride app didn't upload it, and then lost it. I hate that app!!! Even the older version that "usually" works with the bike!
Anyway, a bit cloudy, but otherwise good ride.
The first couple of miles were packed dirt/gravel along the top of a dike built long ago to keep the salt water of the bay off low-lying farm fields. The Dutch originally settled this area, and really knew what they were doing! This shot is facing South, the way we came from. Tide flats on the right, fields on the left:
When the dike rejoined the road, we rode the backstreets of tiny Bayview, WA to Bayview State Park:
The hills in the background are the San Juan Island, when we rode last week.
We continued along the road to the Breazeale Interpretive Center, which usually has several interesting exhibits relating to life in the bay and a small aquarium - closed because of Covid:
Rode the paved wheelchair-accessable trail past several groups of blackberry pickers (one more week and they'll be perfect!) to a tree trunk-accessable shelter
Where we turned around and retraced the route back to the car. It was nice to have a flat ride for a change!
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